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>> tomorrow's election day should be a symbol off our great democracy where every citizen has the right to cast a vote and remember more for the gop's dispickable campaign to suppress the vote. we recently discussed these disgraceful voter i.d. laws with

the former chairman of the naacp and georgia congressman june lewis. >> all the work that was done here, the sacrifice that was done here, the people who lost their lives here have not lost it in vain because they won victories for the civil rights, but their victory has been lessened and cheapened and threatened by these republican governors in 30 odd states who have introduced these voting right laws. >> the vote is precious and it should be very simple to vote. >> these laws serve only one purpose, to make it more difficult for people to vote. i hope americans see that and do something about it. >> the core son sense should develop a national effort to put as much pressure on these states on the governors the state legislatures to say this will not be tolerated in our society. we must create a movement

similar to the civil rights movement of the 1960's. people must protest must organize mobilize those that need to be mentallized and say this must go. it's the only way that we're going to stop it, and we must stop it. >> michael shure will join us with more later in the show. first joining us to talk voter suppression and issues we've seen, congress wham sheila jackson, democratic from texas. thank you for joining our show. >> eliot, thank you. it's a pleasure to be with you this evening. >> you had a rally today about voter suppression. tell us what the issues are and what you see. we've had some successes in the courts. tell us how this has played out over the last several months. >> thank goodness, we've had some victories and they will play out in our election on the final election day the election day tomorrow november 6, for

example, ohio just went to court to insist on these last two days of early vote, saturday and sunday. i just came back from ohio with my colleague the congressional black caucus and our emphasis was one vote, one person, your vote is precious but the idea of how exciting it was to see people be able to vote this past saturday and sunday, and i think the point should be made to vote is not to commit fraud. to vote is not to commit a felony. that's what we want to step away from. that was the inference of these laws. in fact, i am in a state that along with wisconsin texas and one other state had the most repressive if you will, voter i.d. laws. fortunately, we won the battle, and here's the message that we had today. our message was very calm, very simple. it said that the right to vote is precious and we should protect the right to vote.

when i spoke governor, i was speaking to all of harris county. you know this is one of the counties that the u.s. department of justice has sent monitors in, because we've had a history of intimidation, but i did not want to divide the community in my remarks today and what i said was is that everyone who votes tomorrow should rule. we should not have any in stance whether you're disabled or a senior, whether you are one that has not voted before, whether you have a language issue nothing should block your right to vote. i mean that whether you live on the west, east, south or the north, we must say to america that the right to vote is precious, and as my colleague said, we've got to organize around this. we are overwhelmed by blocks to voting. it stops people from voting. it treatens people from voting and we have to get away from that to keep the ideals of this constitution and what we were founded on is that we're all

created equal. >> you are so right and yourar particularlation of this as a fundamental civil rights issue the core of our democracy. i think the good news is over the past months, what i don't see is a clear republican effort to suppress voters among minority voters, send years those they view adverse to their agendas, the courts stepped in to protect fundamental civil rights. that has been one of the state successful story lines of this election season. as a consist betweens, what we're seeing now is another form of voter suppression the same republican governors not permitting the ballot box to be opened, not permitting the resources to be there. already in florida we've seen a voting line of seven hours which is a different form, sort of a mechanical way of keeping people from voting. how do we confront that? >> you know, that is a number

one, i think, civil rights question for members of the congress. it's a call for bipartisan ship should really ring loudly and that should be around voting. if i give a person in florida the right to vote, then i will likewise give the person in red states, blue states and purple states the right to vote. if republicans can come to the acknowledgment that we live under one flag, that when soldiers leave our shore and go to battlegrounds, they fight for one flag and one democracy, we could fix these antiquated voting rules or get our governors no matter their party affiliation to recognize that the voter rules on that date. you're absolutely right. i've had lines here that the last day of early vote, there were people in line here in texas until 10:30 at night. thank goodness they felt their vote was important enough to stay there but this is not a way to treat a tax paying american citizen who is blessed

by this flag and kelsey. we need more financial resources. we need same day registration and the ability to vote on the same day that you register. why should you be intimidated or diminished in your right to vote if you are a american citizen who is willing to fight on foreign soil, paid your taxes you're committed to this country, and yet there are blocks to you voting? i would argue we need a complete reform of the election system. we need to be able to insure that we use technology, on line voting. we need to make sure that our machines are accurate. we've had problems with machines losing votes of not allowing people to vote, showing names that are not the names people voled for. we have come together as democrats with a major election reform bill introduced by the minority whip and supported by our leader nancy pelosi.

the message of this about him it's an extensive bill, it wants to give resources to the state but more importantly has the impetus that voters rule and voters should not be blocked by some form of suchpression in their right to vote. >> congress wham, you are so right. in the aftermath of 2000, seems like ancient history we came up with a litany of proposals in new york, tried to make it a bipartisan effort. unfortunately, every one of these efforts which goes simply to the core notion of voting gets caught up in the mire of partisanship. >> one quick note, governor, just toing that the governor of new york and i know that if you were there you'd do the same thing. i think people should know that to allow an after to those people to have been in harm's way to vote in any precinct they

can find by way of affidavit. wouldn't that be nice to let people go and vote in any voting place across america in their particular state? that's what we're talking about with voter opportunity. >> as you said, same day registration, there are ways to do it with technology that would prevent fraud. fraud is a false issue they've raised. thank you as oles for your participation in our program over the course of the past month. the impact of spanish voters, good news for democrats. congress wham from california next on viewpoint.

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breaks decisively in the president's favor with 73% of latino voters saying they plan to vote for president obama versus a mere 24% who say the same for governor romney. if the latino voters turn out tomorrow their impact in swing states colorado, florida would be a determtive. weighing in is linda sanchez democrat from cal an congresswoman, thank you as always for joining us. >> thank you for having me back. >> so it's hour pleasure to have have--it's our pleasure to have you on the show. you have latinos right in the middle of picking the next president. this is what you predicted look, latino voters are growing. our numbers are growing. the turnout is growing an one of the candidates, president obama, has been very effective as courting the latino vote. explain this. >> we've known for deck kay now

that the fastest growing demographic was the latino population, but they're really poised with having an un unprecedented outcome. there are ten states, swing states that are in place this have large hispanic populations. but even in places that don't have a large hispanic population slight voting shifts will determine who carries those states. right now the bulk of hispanic voters are staunchly supporting president obama. i think they believe him when he says that he's a fighter for working families, and for immigration reform. i think they've seen a lot of very ugly rhetoric on the republican side of the aisle particularly with tee party candidate. and they're very turned off by that message. they're very much supportive of president obama for re-election and democrats in general.

>> you know, the prior high watermark in terms of latino support for any candidate was president clinton in who got 72%. and if we know this poll is correct, we won't know for a few days if it is, the president will get 73%. not only is he hitting the high watermark, but the percentage of the electorate that is latino has jumped from 5% to 10%. just look at the numbers in florida, 16% of the voting public will be latino. nevada at 15.1%. colorado 15.7%. swing states where you're winning by a margin of 3-1 this can really shift those tightly tightly-fought states. answer for me, why was mitt romney so tone deaf on the issue of immigration? >> well, you know, it's not just mitt romney. it's the republican party really. when they had the tea party waved and most of the moderate

republicans were swept out of office because they lost primary elections to these very extreme tea party candidate tea party candidates are completely wrong on the issue of immigration and they're amped up with their rhetoric. i think the republican party has a lot of soul searching to do. here in the state of california republican registration has dipped below 30% for the first tame. they're quickly becoming a permanent minority party. they've completely missed the boat on immigration. we're a country of immigrants. the majority of people regardless of their political affiliation think that immigration is good for this country, and it revitalizes this country. mitt romney in that tea party far-right element, he's loseing support rapidly among latino voters. just from 2008 to this election

cycle, there are 2.4 million more u.s.-born hispanic who credit "v" come of voting age. that's a 26% increase overall in latino voters since the 2008 election. and they fully makeup almost 9% of the electorate nationwide. so they will be in many instance instances, determining what the outcome of these elections will be. >> eliot: look, you're right not only on the substance you and i have had this conversation many times prior months on this show and off you're right. on the political level i'm surprised that mitt romney made the decision to run back to the middle but made it too late in terms of tomorrow's outcome thankfully and on issues like immigration has led the republican party down a dead-end because the california is the perfect case study where it

could be fought by either party primarily because of the latino vote is squarely democratic state. i think that's what the future holds for the republican party unless they change their ideology on this issue. i am not asking them to change. i'm glad they're going to lose, but i'm surprised they're not smart enough to have this happen. >> i don't question that they're not intelligent, but i think they're so locked into an ideology that it blinds them to a reality. they're not making any progress on the issue and they're losing not just this generation of latino voters, but probably generations of latino voters to come. they haven't figured that out or in the worse-case scenario they figured oh out and they just don't really care. >> eliot: look, you and i both know in politics, nothing is impossible. they can always resuscitate them, but you're right in the foreseeable future they've dug themselves in a very deep hole,

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gentlemanit's all over but the time screaming and shouting. two final thoughts. first, amist all the acrimony and fury, let's not forget that some how this process has worked for over 200 years, and the rest of the world has not only watched and marveled, it has imitated and followed. the principles have taken root and even if i am perfectly.

the experiment that was doomed to fail 200 years ago is now the model for all. many folks wake up and want to be like us more than any other nation. we're the envy of the world because of the process, flawed as it may often be. we should take pride in there. there were two issues ignored over the campaign. the aurora shooting which so vividly made clear what we must do to reign in the terror of semiautomatic guns with the magazines that are grossly in excess of anything that makes sense. and now the hurricane i highlights the attention we must pay to climate change. each of these issues fell off the radar for unfortunate political reasons, yet we ignore them at our long-term pearl. whoever governors starting next january, and i'll still more

than quite sure that it will be president obama once again will have to push back against the political voice who is argue we should ignore these critical issues. delay is the enemy of progress. when it comes to each of these crises, things are gettingngngngngngngngngngngngngngngngngngngngngngngngngngngngngng thomas jefferson said that a successful democracy depended on an informed electorate. our country's future depends on you. to help you make informed decisions, watch current tv's politically direct lineup. only on current tv. take the time to learn about the issues. don't just vote, vote smart. >> eliot: joining me now on the phone on what the election means is one of our favorite guests independent senator bernie sanders of vermont. it is a joy having you on our

program. >> good to be with you eliot. >> eliot: now campaigns are about overarching themes even though you don't see it in the the daily give and take, and it should be an metaphor of what government should do and shouldn't do,age i right the public appears to have spoken. we want a government month builds things. we ant a government who helps in the midst of the storm. is this the message out of this campaign? >> well, i think that's very clear that's exactly what the people of this country want. social security is enormously popular. medicare is enormously popular. i think the people of this country understand that we can create millions of jobs by rebuilding our infrastructure. there is great concern since hurricane sandy the impact of global warming and what will be coming down the pike if we do not transform our energy system.

they want us to be aggressive in that area. i think there is a lot of concern about education and the fact that there millions of young people paying to go to college and they want government to be there as well to make sure we have the best-educated worse forceworkforce in the world in this economy. what the right wing has been successful about is to suggest that their extreme ideology is what america wants. it doesn't. i think this is true in 50 states in this country. it makes sense to give huge task breaks to millionaires and billionaires who are already doing well, and then to cut back on work families? to answer your question, i think the american people understand especially amidst this recession that government is there to protect us and we all maintain a minimummal standard of living.

>> the president led us back from this great recession the cataclysm of 2008 and then hurricane sandy the republicans whined and said it distracted from mitt romney's momentum at the end. it didn't distract. it seemed to me that it became a metaphor because people paid attention to the reality that we need the government, and the issue was no longer who built it but who rebuilt it. the government game in and began that process when we needed it most. that's when people finally paid attention. as you have been arguing so persuasively there isn't a role that government must fill. i would like to pivot to what will take place after the election and in january. are you worried there will be a great push to a grand bargain that does not reflect the values you just articulated. >> absolutely, eliot. i think it's very clear that virtually all of the republicans are going to fight not only to extend bush's tax breaks for the wealthy, will you also but also to lower tax

rates for corporations and wealthy individuals. are they going to want to cut social security despite the factocial security has not contributed one nickel to the deficit and has a $2.7 billion surplus. they're going to want to cut medicare and medicaid and other programs. my fear is there are conservative democrats who will want to go along with that effort. i'll be working with senior groups saying deficit reduction is a serious issue but there are ways we can do it without balancing the budget on the backs of the elderly the children, the sick and the poor, especially when so many people are hurting today. yes, we have got to ask the wealthiest people and rogerrest corporations in this country to pay their fair share of taxes an end this absurd tax policy that is costing $150 billion every year because wealthy and large corporations are stashing their

money, and yes we have to take a hard look at military spending and other government agencies where there is a lot of excessive spending and there is waste. bottom line is this, this will be a huge struggle. there will be those people who will want to go after working families, they want austerity for the middle class and they want more tax breaks for the rich. i and other members of congress will fight very hard against that approach. >> yes very quickly senator you touched on the issue that perhaps is the most important one, which is wage stagnation for middle class workers. that is something that we must address. it's been in stagnation for 30 years. that has really debilitated the middle class and sapping the wealth of the middle class. give us one thing that we need to do to give middle class wage earners so that wages can keep up. >> the no-brainer is we can create millions of good-paying jobs by rebuilding our crumbel

becrumbelling infrastructure, move away from fossil fuel to sustainable energy and take a hard look at our trade policies which have cost us millions of decent jobs. >> eliot: senator from vermont as always it's great to have your insight thes on the show and i would move to vermont to vote for you if ever your election was in doubt. >> thank you (vo) this tuesday, current tv presents special election coverage, with unrivaled social media, straight from the campaigns, the pundits, and from viewers like you. with exclusive analysis and commentary from al gore, someone who knows a thing or two about close elections. >> overall, it was a clear win. >> now that's politically direct. >> so keep on tweeting and maybe you'll have your voice be part of this democracy and see your tweets up on our screen.

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